Health Care Assistant, Acute

Are you a caring and dedicated Health Care Assistant passionate about providing exceptional care? Royal Columbian Hospital is seeking Casual Health Care Assistants to join our dynamic acute-care team, delivering comfort and compassionate assistance to patients in recovery.

New Westminster

New Westminster is known for its stunning waterfront views along the Fraser River, located on the north side of the Fraser River bordering several municipalities in each direction (Burnaby, Coquitlam, Surrey, and Delta), making it the centre of the Greater Vancouver region. 

You'll support patients with daily activities, collaborate closely with healthcare professionals, and become an integral part of a fast-paced medical team dedicated to excellence.

Grow professionally while making a difference in patients' lives every day

The Royal Columbian Hospital Redevelopment Project is well underway with phase two slated to open in 2025, and phase three in 2026.

Highlights for the three-phase redevelopment project include:

• A new and larger Emergency Department will have more treatment spaces and a satellite medical imaging unit
• More operating rooms and interventional radiology and cardiac suites on a surgical and interventional 'superfloor'
• More beds for intensive care, cardiac intensive care, obstetrical, and medical/ surgical patients
• Larger maternity unit joined to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• Advanced technologies and equipment
• 350+ underground parkade, new main entrance, and rooftop heliport

RCH provides a number of highly specialized acute care services such as tertiary trauma, cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, interventional cardiology and thoracic surgery that often require the care of multiple medical specialists, multidisciplinary care teams and the use of specialized equipment and technology.

In addition, RCH provides referral services in a variety of medical and surgical specialties such as mental health and substance use, internal medicine, cardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, gynecology, urology, ophthalmology, plastic surgeries.

In accordance with the Mission and Values of Fraser Health, the Health Care Assistant works in an acute department under the direction of a nurse (Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Nurse Practitioner (NP)), in cooperation with the interprofessional care team, and following established care plans and person-centered care. Provides personal care to patients such as assisting with toileting, bathing, skin and hair care, oral hygiene, grooming, dressing, changing beds, patient positioning and mobilization. Documents on patient charts in accordance with established procedures, observes and reports patient progress, assists patients with meals, transports patients, and performs related general duties.

1. Provides personal care to patients such as assisting patients with toileting, bathing, skin and hair care, oral hygiene, grooming, dressing, changing beds, patient positioning and mobilization.
2. Observes and reports patient progress including anticipated/unanticipated patient responses to care, patient discomfort and/or pain, skin breakdowns, and unusual incidents and/or accidents to the designated nurse.
3. Assists patients with meals by completing menu slips, checking meals to ensure the maintenance of dietary restrictions, serving and collecting meal trays and feeding designated patients.
4. As directed by the nurse, measures temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure and weight and obtains non-sterile specimens such as urine and stool; records and reports problems and/or changes to the designated nurse.
5. Documents on patient charts for activities of daily living and other observations in accordance with established procedures.
6. Transports patients using mechanical aids such as wheelchairs, lifts and stretchers.
7. Assists in the admission, discharge and transfer of patients including the transfer/care of clothing and personal belongings.
8. Sets up charts for new patients and attaches documents to charts as directed by the nurse and according to established protocols.
9. Performs a variety of related general duties such as answering the phone, maintaining storage areas, ordering supplies through stores, transporting specimens, maintaining and locating inventory of equipment, cleaning and caring for equipment such as commodes/bed pans, and maintaining tidy patient rooms and patient care areas.
10. Attends internal/external committees, patient care meetings and training sessions as assigned.
11. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Education, Training and Experience

Grade 10 plus graduation from a recognized Health Care Assistant program or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Current Food Safe Level One, as required.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with others effectively.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Ability to organize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.
  
  

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka'pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
 
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
 
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health's hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
 
Together, we are the heart of health care.
 
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